page_title: Israel–Kenya relations
section_title: 1962–75
hierarchical_section_title: Israel–Kenya relations / History / 1962–75
caption_attribution_description: English: P.M. LEVY ESHKOL AND KENYA PRESIDENT JOMO KENYATTA AT STATE HOUSE IN NAIROBI, KENYA עברית: .ביקור רה"מ לוי אשכול בקניה, אפריקה. בצילום, פגישת רה"מ אשכול עם נשיא קניה ז'ומו קנייתה, בבית המדינה בניירובי.
context_page_description: Israel–Kenya relations are foreign relations between Israel and Kenya. The countries established diplomatic relations in December 1963. Israel has an embassy in Nairobi. Kenya has an embassy in Tel Aviv.
context_section_description: In January 1962, Kenyan politician Tom Mboya, Secretary-General of the Kenya African National Union, met with Israeli Histadrut Secretary General Aharon Becker.
  In December 1963 Golda Meir, then Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, met with Kenyan Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta. On that trip Meir and Kenyatta laid the cornerstone for the Israeli Embassy in Nairobi. Israel agreed to train Kenyans in agriculture and medicine in a program called Mashav, in which trainees from Kenya were flown to Israel for study.
  In 1966, Prime Minister Levi Eshkol visited Kenya and met with President Kenyatta.
  In 1973, diplomatic ties were severed following the Yom Kippur War.
caption: Levi Eshkol and Jomo Kenyatta
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